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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
The Self-Sustaining Colonies and Their
TendenCy.

The Sen-SuSt0fntng Colonies and Their
Tendency.
TORONTO, Out, Oct. 21.-The Globe pub.
fishes a cable from Belfast giving a sum-
mary of Mr.. Chamberlain's speech in that
city last Saturday. He said: ''Mr. Glad
stone has on many occasions referred to the
case of our self-governing colonies as an
illustration of home rule. In q recent
speech Ee spoke of Nav South Wales,
and in a precious One he spoke of
Canada. But are we going to blind our
<elves to the fact that the tree which con-
meets us with our self-governing colonies is
one of the slenderist; one that can be
broken at pleasure by any one Of them,
and that we should have nothing to say
to it. They make their own tariff, and
are now getting a separate navy. Already
you have in Canada, the greatest Of all the
colonies, an agitation for what is called a
commercial union with America. Com
mercial union with America means pro.
tective tariff against the mother country
but Canada also knows we'll that CONNER
cial union with America means separation
from England.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
In North Caroline.

AsHEvILLE, N. g., Oct q The President.
and his party reached here at 10:l5 yester-
day morning. The President, between SUM-
rise and the late breakfast, took in the
ascent OF the great smoky spur OF the.
Alieghenies lying fifty miles or moro be-
sidS the French broad river. At Hot.
Springs Senators Ransom and Vance and
Congressman Henderson boarded the
train and accompanied the President to-
Asheville. The stop at Asheville was
scheduled for only fifteen minutes, but
lasted an hour. The municipal authorities
and q host Of citizens welcomed the Presi-
dent at the station and escorted him and
through the town
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
THE LATEST.


In the storm on Lake Michigan on the
23d. the scbooners George s. Herman and
Alva Brandish were wrecked. The crew
Of the Sherman escaped and the crew OF
the Brandish was thought to be wandering
also thought to be lost.
WALDEMAR ADOLPH THIsrED, the Danish
poet and novelist, is dead.
One Of the abscondIng directors of the
Leipsic bank has been arrested at Multi
hansen. Germany.
Hon. E. B. WAsuEURNE, ex-Minister to
France, died at the residence of his son in
Chicago on the 22d suddenly from brain con-
gestion.
The indictments in the Knights Of Labor
have issued an address accusing Powderly
and his immediate supporters of many
abuses OF power and crooked transactions.
Reorganization was called for
The Republican National Committee has
been called to meet in Washington, Deem
Der s, to fix the date and place of the next
National Republican convention.
AN extensive fire ragged at St. Louis on
the I'D, commencing in the w oolman- Todd
wholesale shoe store, 4l3 Washington
street. The adjoining buildings were
burned out, causing loss of over $500, 600.
The great statue of Abraham Lincoln at
the entrance to Lincoln park, Chicago. was
unveiled on the 22d. Leonard SWEET, a
prominent lawyer and ole friend OF the
dead President, delivered the Grafton.
Two Pullman cars were wrecked and an
engineer fatally hurt at Hobokeu, n j.,
recently, the air brakes on an express fail
ing to work.
TIVE steam launch Mary exploded her
boilers at New York recently, killing two
brothers named Cunningham. The owner
was badly hurt and many persons had
narrow escapes.
INTELLIGENCE has been received Of tho
destruction by fire OF Kittaba, a town of
BOkhara, Central Asia. Half the inhabit-
ants persisted in the flames.
AN oven for japanning exploded at Ses-
sions Il Sons work at Bristol, Conn, on
The I'D, killing three boys and wOunding
some others.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
October % showed an average increase Of
aS compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the increase
was 10.
The President and party returned to
W ashington on the I'D from their trip to
The West and South. Mrs. Cleveland
expressed herself as gratified at
the many tokens OF regard from the people
of which she had been the recipient.
A GIRL was fatally injured receatly at
Louisville, KY, while playing with bomb
which exploded. The missile was sup
posed to have been left by some Poles or
Bohemians who formally occupied the
building.
TIE Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
that hotel guests are not legally
negligent in failing to bolt their doors I'M
ess regulations requiring such boiling are
brought to their notice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
Fatal Sl,OotinC.

KANSAS CITY, No, Oct. 19.-Last nigh,
about eleven o'clock, Ed FairchIld, in com
paDy with two OF her men, while returning
from the Exposition, stopped ut ball a,
st27 Woodland avenue. Just at the time
Fairchild and his friends stopped, genera
fight was going on in the ball room. Fair
child was shot through the head by q ran
dom bullet. He was taken to his home
Twenty seventh and Euclid avenue, an6
Dr.. L.mbeder called in, who found him il
very precarious condition, the brain.
nozing out OF his head and his lower limbs
paralyzed. The men who did the shooting
escaped.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES
BR. HARRIS. Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General, has discovered an old Law which
forbids persons advertising their business
on envelopes sent through the mail.
The fifteenth annual meeting Of the Car
rage Builders National Association began
at Washington on the 18th. Over 100 dele
gates were present. President Studebaker,
Of South Bend, Ind, called the meeting to
order.
The japanese Minister entertained at q
farewell banquet in Washington on the
18th Secretaries Bayard, Lamar and Fair
child, the Justices Of the Supreme Court
and other distinguished persons.
CIvIL-SERvICE COMMISSIONERS EDGERroN
has again expressed himself as opposed to
the views Of Commissioner Oberly in the
enforcement Of the Civil-Service law.
RusTEM EFFENDI, Secretary of the Turk
ish Legation, died recently in Washington.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has recommended
that the President be requested to issue an
executive proclamation warning all per-
sons, whether claiming to act as officers of
Greer County, Texas, or otherwise, against
selling or attempting to sell any Of the lands
west of the north fork of the Red river in
the southwestern part of the Indian Terri
tory, or exercising any authority over them.
GOVERNOR CHURCH in his annual report
estimates the population OF Dakota at $685.
l17, an increase of 66,OO0 during the year.
The assessment Of property is S157, 0S4, 1865.
an increase OF nearly Sl5, 0OO. goo, while the
bonded Indebtedness is s, O9S, 500.
AT Washington on the 2lst, before the
counsel of the Chicago Anarchists could
open the case, Justice Harlan said he had
decided to have it come before the Supreme
Court in open session, and as the matter
was extremely important and urgent, it
could come before the full bench at any
moment. Later the case was brought be-
fore the full court.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
Missouri Funds Drop.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Oct 2l-For Q sec-
ond time the State Fund Commissioners
failed to effect sale Of 500, ZOO Of so Sk
per cent. funding bonds. Only one bid was
received, 1t being % cents ON the dollar.
This bid was rejected and the bonds will
again be offered for sale. The drop in Mis-
souri, securities is attributed u tha
stringency Of the money market.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
Suspendlng Members.

NEW YORK, Oct 2l.-The board OF man
ayers OF the Produce Exchange to-day aus
pended about rs members for non payment
OF their annual dues and still greater
number for failing to pay the gratuity fund
assessments H.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28

FtRE in New York City the other morn
ing destroyed J. n. Alpert's wholesale
grocery and William Wicks' strip ware
house, causing 500, 600 loss.
TEE situation In the Lehigh Valley Pa)
coal regions Il said to be very bad, the
striking miners being In want and spurred
on to evil by Anarchists.
FIRE in Pittsburgh, Pa, recently. de-
stroyed Adams & Co.'s glass works. row
Of Easements, two brick buildings and
three stables, causing $50, 600 loss.
GEORGE w. SMITH, Buffalo man, claims
to have found way to use the power OF
Niagara falls, and has received permission
and money to make trial
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
GENERAL.

The Discontc Gesellschaft Of Leipsic,
the capital Of which is 5000, 900 marks, has
failed In consequence Of unlawful specula-
iion. Directors Jerusalem and Winkel-
mann Of the bank have absconded with an
enormous amount of spoils and all Of the
banks stock.
SEVERE snow storms are reported in
Italy, greatly injuring the crops and ami
mails. A number Of houses were uuroofed
at Pisa by a hurricane. Several persons
were drowned in Lake Como,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
The Cuhnu FloOdls.

HAVANA, Oct. 2-The foods at ROGUE
caused by springs, are still increasing. A
number Of plantations, including several
estates, are totally submerged.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28
THE SOUTH.


BIZ a fire in a small DOLLHOUSE at the
county poor farm near Paris, Tex. the
other morning, negro woman was burned
to death.
TIE remains Of General Fitzpatrick were
inferred at West Point on the 18th.
THE wool market of San Antonio, Tex, is
reported at a complete standstill because of
the refusal OF certain wool houses to pay
any thing but the lowest prices.
TIMOTHY Bros, dry goods dealers Of
Nashville, Tenn, have made an assignment.
The total amount Of assets was unknown.
The liabilities were about $3O0, 900.
The eleventh annual session of the Con-
gress of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Of the United States opened at Christ
Church, Louisville, Ky, on the 18th.
A SEVERE storm recently prevailed for
two days in New Orleans and vicinity.
Trees, fences and buildings were blown
down and reports from plantations along
Morgan's railroad from Morgan City to
New Orleans show that almost all the sugar
cane was blown fiat The rear portion of
the city west of Claiborn street was in
undated to a considerable depth.
JUDGE WILLIAM ARTHUR Cooke. author
Of several standard law books, died at San
ford, Fla, recently, aged seventy.
The monument of the Fourteenth Brook
Ign regiment at Gettysburg was dedicated
on the 18th. 1t is Of granite. Ex-Mayor
Seth Low, Of Brooklyn, delivered the ad.
dress.
JUDGE JOHN Yosr has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans Of the
Sixth louisiana district.
TEN new cases of and three deaths from
yellow fever were reported from Tampa,
Fla, on the Goth.
MRS. HAMP MCDONALD and Engineer
Robert Ward were killed recently by a col
lision between a passenger train and a
freight train near Greenville, W. Va Many
other persons were seriously injured.
h. A. MONTGOMERY, president of the Rae
ing Association at Memphis, Tenn, fell dead
on the 10th, while in the act of welcoming
the members of the Waterways convention,
then in session, to the race meeting.
THREE coaches were turned over and
many passengers seriously hurt by q de-
fective switch on the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad, near Charleston, W. Va, recent
~. No blame was attached to the en-
ployes.
In quarrel the other morning at Magno-
liza, Ark, between Rev. E. NJ. Williams and
Thomas Decker. the former was fatally
stabbed. Decker fled, but was captured
and jailed.
The Texas State Fair at Dallas was
opened on the Goth by Governor Ross in the
presence Of 1000 people.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
THE JEWS OF RUSSIA.

When Russian sees three men with
gaunt faces, long priestly coats dang
ling at their heels, and lock of hair
hanging over each ear, he says, more
government spies"
These Polish Jews should not be con-
founded with the thrifty Jews of Amer
lea. They are another class of people.
Their features, their manners, the cut
of their hair, and the fashion of their
clothing are different from what one is
accustomed to see in New York. The
number of blends among them is sur
prisingly large. They seldom travel
alone, but in companies roam the plains
of Russia and Poland, ever talking,
ever restless; watched, feared, and
hated; and they in turn, ever watch
ing, ever hating, and never afraid, yet
distrust ever turks in their finely CHS
elled faces. The general opinion ex-
pressed by the Russians is that while
Polish Jews are spies by nature, they
have remarkable gifts for business, and
that when one Of them is so fortunate
as to get a considerable sum of money
and embark in wheat speculations, he
speedily grows rich, gathers his clan
nish friends about him, forms colos-
sal combination, through which, If not
prevented by oppression or legalized
conspiracy on the part of his jealous
neighbors, he in time is able to control
the business of his neighborhood. tits
not until one has seen these Polish
Jews, watched their strangely express
sive faces, and studied their peculiar
character, that he appreciates that they
are direct descendants of the Jews of
history, who for ages suffered unspeak-
able outrages. The wrongs described
by historians are plainly written in their
faces, and as they glide noiselessly along
the streets, with restless, Jesuitical
countenances, one feels suspicious in
spite Of himself. Many of these people
are undoubtedly obnoxious. I have
seen weary woman struggle through
the crowd at railway station to get
water for her little ones, when priest
Unlocking dervish snatched the cup
| from her hand and drank the water
with the manners of beast. Why
these yellow-haired wanderers always
travel in squads of three, no one ex-
plains. They swarm the country. The
cruelties of centuries have given them
a ferocious, hunted look and made
them as brutal as animals, yet their
intellect lifts them above their oppres-
sors, who call them "spies. "-Ralph
Meeker, in Harper's Magazine for april.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Frederick Morel.

While employed in the translation OF
Libanius, messenger came to him, with
word that his wife who had been long
in languishing state, was really very i'll,
and desired to speak to him. 81 have
but two periods to translate" said he;
"when they are done I will go to see her. T"
A second messenger came to tell him she
was at the point of death. 81 have now
but half line; go back to her, shall be
there as soon as YOU" The moment af-
ter notice was brought to him that she
was dead. 81 am exceedingly sorry for
it," said he, "she was a good womanp
And without more ado he went on with his
work,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Peter Pontiac.

He was magistrate Of great ability,
but very indolent. A client arrived one
day at his country house just as he was
mounting for the chase. Pontiac babe
him await his return, and being of rather
droll disposition babe him amuse him.
self meanwhile with discovering the
meaning of the cypher over the gate.
which consisted Of four P's, signifying
Peter Pontiac, premier president. When
the judge returned he found his dangling
client, and asked him if he had made out
the cypher: eyes, my lord, that havep
"Aye, we'll, what is it % 1T is pauUre
plaideur, pre1ley patience. poor client,
have patience. The affair was finished
the next day.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Henry Welby.

He was native of Lancashire, and had
an estate Of over one thousand pounds
q year. Indignant at the attempt of q
brother to murder him, at the age Of
forty he went into retirement IN his own
house, in suite OF three rooms, one for
eating, one for sleeping, one for study.
Herehelived for forty four years, seen only
occasionally by an old female servant.
He spent his time in reading, meditation
and prayer; the most of his large fortune
he expended in charities He died the
29th of Oct, 1886, and lies buried in St.
Giles church, near Cripplegate. His faith
full old servant died six days before him.
He had one lovely daughter, but neither
she nor her family ever saw him after he
went into retirement. He was verify a
Carthusian monk, though an English
gentleman of means.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Bishop Jewell.

He was celebrated divine in the reigns
of King Edward VI. and Queen Mary
and Queen Elizabeth, and gifted with a
wonderful memory, which he greatly i'm
proved by art. In the year 1868, Doctor
Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper OF the
Great Seal, read to him one day out of
Erasmus's "Paraphrase," the last clauses
of ten lines, confused and imperfect on
purpose. When he had sat silent little
while, covering his face with his hand, he
repeated all those broken pieces of sem
fences the right way, and the contrary,
without hesitation. Another time Bishop
Hooper read to him twice forty Welsh,
Irish and foreign terms. He at once re-
peated them all by heart, backwards and
forwards.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Mary ShelIerlck.

An extraordinary woman, who served
as a common soldier at Jemmapes, Aus
terlitz, and several other conflicts, and was
severely wounded at each. Napoleon
treated her with distinction, made her a
lieutenant, and invested her with the dec
Grafton Of the Legion of Honor. In 1907
she had bestowed on her an annual PEN
sion of 675 francs. On her return from
Italy, Gautoise presented her, in military
costume, to the Empress Josephine, who
gave her velvet robe. She died Sept. 1.
1910, aged 81.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Sir Joshua Reynolds.

He used to tell of president of an
academy Of painting in neighboring
country who paid him visit, and that he
showed him his foreign pictures, to the
originality OF many of which he made
objections. At last coming to a copy of
female satyr, made by Sir Joshua after
Rubens, he cried out: "This is an origi-
ipal; I see the squirt of Rubens's pencil"
Sir Joshua had the good nature and the
good manners not to undeceiye the pre-
tended connoisseur. So little satisfied
was he with his own paintings that, when
foreign painter who finished his pict-
ures very highly, was one day showing
them to him, and asking him il he had
not better finish less, Sir Joshua replied:
"You had better keep to your old man.
ner; as for my part-I only make sketch
es.''
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Sir Henry Motion.

He was born in Kent in 1868. Being
in Rome he formed an acquaintance with
pleasant priest, who invited him one
evening to hear their vesper music at
church. The priest seeing Sir Henry
stand obscurely in corner, sends to him
by boy Of the choir this question, writ
ten on small bit of psper:-"W Where was
your religion to be found before Luther?"
to which Sir Henry wrote underneath
"My religion was to be found then, where
yours is not to be found now, in the writ
ten word OF God"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
GREAT DEEDS IN OLD AGE

Suppose, then, we agree to call no man
old till he is paet sixty-three. Let us SET
down the names of some of the illustrious
people of the world who have prolonged
their days of usefulness after that age.
We shall make table of them, and begin
it with those who have died at seventy
that is to say, with those in whom the
springs of life have not stood still till
they have had at least seven years Of old
age. 1t will be found, however, to be far
from exhaustive, and every reader will
find pleasure in adding TO it from his own
stock of information:
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
PERSON LITIES.
Gathered from old Books for The Universalist.
Gaorpa F0x

Gathered from old Books for The Universalist.
George Fox,
Founder of the Quakers; born 1926.
When laying down rules for his new sect,
he recommended that Faithful women,
called to the belief of the truth, are made
partakers of the same precious faith, and
heirs of the same everlasting gospel of
life and salvation, as the men are, might
in like manner come into the profession
and practice of the gospel order, and
therein be meet help to the men in the
service OF truth, and the affairs of the
church, as they are actually in civil and
temporal things; that so all the family of
God, women as well as men, might know,
possess or perform these offices and SER
vices in the house of God, whereby the
poor might be better taken care of; the
younger sort instructed, informed and
taught in the way of God; the disorderly
reproved and admonished in the name of
the Lord; and all the members of the
spiritual body, the church, might watch
over and be helpful to each other in love. "
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
BEECHER ON DEATH.

Following is from the last article
(March) of Mr.. Beecher in the Brooklyn
Magazine
ave are going home. Men shiver at
the idea that they are going to die; but
this world is only a nest. We are
scarcely Matched out of it here. We do
not know ourselves. We have strange
feelings that do not interpret them
selves. The mortal in us is crying for
the immortal. AS in the night the
child, waking with some vague and
nameless terror, cries out to express its
fear and dread, and its cry is interpre-
ted in the mothers heart, who runs to
the child and lays her hand upon it and
quiets it to sleep again, so God hears
our disturbances, trials and tribulations
in life. Do you not suppose that he
who is goodness itself cares for you?
Do you suppose that he whose royal
name is Love has less sympathy for
you than the mother has for her babe
Let the world rock. If the foot of God
is on the cradle, fear not. Look up,
take courage, hope and hope unto the
end.o
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
PhiletaS,

He was one Of the most distin guished
of the Alexandrian grammarians and crit
les, and tutor to the second Ptolemy.
He is recorded by Athenians to have SO
reduced himself by it's studies, that he
was obliged to wear leaden bullets in his
shoes, lest he should be blown away by
the wind.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Lord Chesterfield.

When very low, he begged his physi-
clan to be plain with him, and say if he
did not think he should die by inches.
The physician replied in the affirmative.
"Well, them" said the sick lord, 81 have
one great consolation remaining yet, that
I am not so tall as SIR Thomas Robin
SON."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
La Fontaine.

He was once to dine with party of
friends, but could not be found for hours
and at last was caught in the grounds.
When asked what had detained him, his
answer was, 81 have just been to an ants
funeral. I walked with the procession to
the burying ground, and then waited on
the family home"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Rev. Joseph AlIeine

He was asked by a friend how he could
be content to lie SO long in that condi.
ton, deprived of the use of his limbs
He answered: "Whatl is God my Faith
or, Christ my Saviour, and heaven my
home, and shall not be content without
health and limbs? He is an unreason-
able wretch who cannot be content with
God, though he has nothing else.'
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Constable.

He chiefly delighted to paint nature in
her moist aspects, and he always repre-
sented her truly, and looking beautiful
through her tears. "John, bring me my
umbrella-Pm going to see Mr.. CoUns-
tables picture" said old Fuseh to his
servant; and the sarcasm was compli-
mentary,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
Lord AShburtOn.

This great lawyer and eloquent speak
er was one day applied to by friend of
his, to lay down plan of study of the
law for his son. 81 really" replied Lord
Ashburton, do not well know what to
recommend; I took great pains myself to
know my profession, but the age of in
dustry is now over"